cookie-pusher

cookie-pusher
n
American
an unmanly man, an effete or sycophan-tic male (the word never seems to be used of women). The image is of some-one who spends his time passing cook-ies at tea parties, either because he enjoys such 'effeminate' activities, or in order to curry favour or further his career.
► some little State Department cookie-pusher trying to persuade them all to play ball

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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